Updated 3 hours ago
What to Know
The deadly house fire happened at around 12:25 a.m. on May 6 at a home on a cul-de-sac on Coralwood Court in Chula Vista.
Four people were inside the house: a woman, man, and the man s two children.
Family members have identified the father as Jesus Suro, and the children as 4-year-old Joshua and 5-year-old Gabriel.
NBC 7 has learned the names of the two boys tragically killed in a house fire Thursday, and the name of their father who was badly burned trying to rescue them from the blaze.
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Updated 4 hours ago
What to Know
The deadly house fire happened at around 12:25 a.m. on May 6 at a home on a cul-de-sac on Coralwood Court in Chula Vista.
Four people were inside the house: a woman, man, and the man s two children.
The kids, believed to be around 4 and 5 years old, died in the fire; the adults survived.
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“They were great little boys. [Their dad] played with them a lot. My boys played with them. They always laughed, and I can’t imagine how he will deal with this. I don’t – that was his whole world. It was, said Debra Combs, a former roommate of the kids father.
School boards: La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, 6 p.m. Tuesday;
Santee School District, 7 p.m. Tuesday
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Two parents sued the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District last week, alleging that the district has violated state law by failing to provide in-person learning this school year.
La Mesa-Spring Valley is one of multiple San Diego County districts that have offered only distance learning instruction to most students since the pandemic began last year.
The parent plaintiffs, Spring Vick and David Hargenburger, said in their complaint that distance learning has been “less effective, inaccessible, inadequate, unnecessary, inconsistent with the law, and in too many cases, very harmful to district students and families.”
The complaint cites state education law which says that school districts must “offer in-person instruction to the greatest extent possible.” The parents said that means the district must have offered at least some in-person instruction to all students.